Concept of Kanika Saxena and Muhbit-ul-Haq

Summary

Big Tech is trying to fight fake news. But it has emerged as a major challenge in the language. There are still many systems in place to deal with fake news and misinformation in regional languages ​​spoken across the country. So what should be done? Is Big Tech Translating the Problem Statement Well?

Not far from the picturesque town of Kasol, everything was fun at the fair in a small village in the hills of Himachal Pradesh. Songs were flowing, and the fervor was joyful. Joyful, until a smiling local translated the lyrics of a song in his local language Dogri into Hindi for us. Much to our surprise and horror, the songs were based on news stories and were mostly set to the tune of popular Bollywood numbers – on WhatsApp forwards. In a village where only one

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